A tepid first period, but the Flames were mostly the better team after that - particularly in the third, despite the fact the Sabres were chasing. The game could have gone either way through two and these were the kind of contests the Flames were losing in November but are probably going to start falling in the win column a bit more often.

The absence of Myers, Roy and Connolly certainly helped things I think, particularly given how terrible the Sabres PP looked.